marado

twtxt.net

Systems Engineer, Free Software advocate, Musician, Virtual World God.

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In-reply-to » Hi! I'll be microblogging from ciberlandia.pt from now on. What does that mean? If you want to follow me via mastodon you can, at @marado , if you want to follow me via twtxt you can keep following me via at https://tilde.pt/~marado/twtxt.txt . See you on the "other side"!

I think twtxt.net’s interface has gone wild at me… my mastodon account will be (at)marado(at)ciberlandia.pt .

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Exactly 10 years ago Kokori’s first release on vinyl was out - and we celebrated with a release party in one of the afternoons of the Entremuralhas festival.
Ten years later, we’re back attending the festival, and this time we see one of the stands selling our latest release, rootkit, on CD! ♡

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I hate reading translations. Here’s an example why: the same passage of the English and the Portuguese translation of the same (French) book. Not just the length of the passage shows one of the translations wasn’t faithful, the behavior of the character in one version is the opposite than how he behaves on the other version…

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The only feature that leads me to use Gmail (and which I use extensively) is ‘Snooze’. For a few days now, it has not been working properly. Lost about what will I use to replace my workflows, but it also seems that Gmail is about to get one less user.

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I bet there is someone who wrote a paper, a book or something about the impact of the death of MySpace on music projects. I’m saying this more or less hoping that someone will one day point me to one, I’d love to read it. What I know is that lately I have been revisiting my record collection and confirming that there is an enormous amount of recording artists and projects that started with the MySpace phenomenon, and ended with MySpace’s death.

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O Presidente da República disse mesmo que termos este evento Católico a decorrer no nosso país laico é o maior acontecimento da democracia Portuguesa? Que vergonha.

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In-reply-to » Renault has a remote locking "feature" on the batteries of their electric cars. They used it in Portugal, and that was considered illegal.

my translation:

«The judge considered that, despite Renault Portugal having claimed the company and brand has no means to block the vehicles, it was proved that “there is a computer platform that was activated, in a way not disclosed, and through which was operated first the blocking and then the unblocking of the batteries”.»

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In-reply-to » Renault has a remote locking "feature" on the batteries of their electric cars. They used it in Portugal, and that was considered illegal.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I don’t really know. Here’s a concerning quote:

«A juíza considerou que, apesar de a Renault Portugal ter garantido que a empresa e a marca não tinham meios para bloquear as viaturas, se fez prova de que “há uma plataforma informática que foi accionada, de forma que as requeridas não concretizaram, e através da qual foi operado primeiro o bloqueio e depois o desbloqueio das baterias”.»

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In-reply-to » @jmjl Hmmmmmmm, I’m not sure. 🤔 Other than what @prologic said, I think this could be one of those features that open the gates for spam. You don’t really have control anymore over which people you follow, so anyone could come along, push twts to that registry and thus spam your timeline. (Hence jenny would also need a mute feature.)

and if so, can we implement migration first?

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In-reply-to » @jmjl Hmmmmmmm, I’m not sure. 🤔 Other than what @prologic said, I think this could be one of those features that open the gates for spam. You don’t really have control anymore over which people you follow, so anyone could come along, push twts to that registry and thus spam your timeline. (Hence jenny would also need a mute feature.)

@prologic@twtxt.net you’re planning to stop AP support before doing the bridge?

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In-reply-to » The hottest 21 days ever recorded on Earth were the last 21 days.

This. 2025 is the “limit date” (some say by, others before) for emissions peak, in order to keep warming to 1.5C. What are we doing? Globally, it seems that we are not even trying to make it peak, whenever.

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In-reply-to » "Web Environment Integrity" is Google's fancy name for closing the web in a DRM scheme. The internet found out, started questioning in github issues ans pull requests... and now the repository is worth reading with a popcorn bucket on your lap.

@prologic@twtxt.net “websites” that only work on “trusted browsers”, the vilest sort of proposal one can do, breaking the web.

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“Web Environment Integrity” is Google’s fancy name for closing the web in a DRM scheme. The internet found out, started questioning in github issues ans pull requests… and now the repository is worth reading with a popcorn bucket on your lap.

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It has been a long time coming (ten years since book 11!), but 2023 saw the release of book 12 of “Piracy Is Liberation”. With it, I also ordered CBA’s vol. 58, entitled “Modern Glossalia or The Erosion Of Meaning”, which focuses (or at lease includes) a reflection of the growth of the extreme right, and their uses of language.

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In-reply-to » Google Says It'll Scrape Everything You Post Online for AI

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci To be fair, it was already codified there. What is more interesting (to me) is how they’re using a privacy policy (binding their users) in an attempt to get implicit licensing over materials out of the scope of those services, both from their users and others (or of authors unknown). Not that it matters much, I bet they’d argue such license is unneeded, but the fact that they decided to have that wording there makes me curious about the legal basis of such clause. Yes, I know Goggle had an extensive and capable legal team, but I’d still love seeing a legal analysis of the applicability of that under various jurisdictions.

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Em 31 de Maio, a ampliação da Mina do Barroso obteve por parte da Agência Portuguesa do Ambiente, uma Declaração de Impacto Ambiental favorável, ainda que condicionada ao cumprimento de um conjunto de condições. As populações consideraram isto uma declaração de guerra e reagiram de imediato, prometendo a continuação e o endurecimento da luta.

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Pedro Nuno Santos a dizer que em qualquer empresa do mundo se comunica de diversar formas, incluindo via whatsapp. A AP está mesmo a precisar daqueles formações chapa 5 sobre segurança e privacidade de dados. Não, não é normal (ou aceitável) o uso de whatsapp (ou qq outra ferramenta não formalmente escolhida para o efeito de comunicação interna) para coisas destas.

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I wrote here a few days ago about kokori’s “rootkit” (now also available on CD) but it all started on this day 13 years ago, with the release of our “init()” EP, seen in this picture:

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Já anda por aí, enquadrado no festival literário “Lamego, Cidade Poema”. É o livro “Era Uma Vez - Lamego 2023”, e tem o seu lançamento oficial no último momento do festival, domingo às 16h.

Participo nele com um texto de não-ficção para o leitor curioso geek: não haverão muitos, mas dá-me prazer saber que a história geek Lamecense vai estar nas prateleiras de uma qualquer biblioteca.

Lamego 2023
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Lamego 2023

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